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EDENTATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("edentate" is a kind of...):
eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "edentate"):
armadillo (burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates)
sloth; tree sloth (any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits)
megatherian; megatherian mammal; megatheriid (a large extinct ground sloth)
mylodontid (a variety of extinct edentate)
mylodon (large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the Pleistocene in South America)
anteater; New World anteater (any of several tropical American mammals of the family Myrmecophagidae which lack teeth and feed on ants and termites)
Holonyms ("edentate" is a member of...):
Edentata; order Edentata (order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteaters; sloths; armadillos)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having few if any teeth
Example:
anteaters are edentate animals
Synonyms:
edental; edentate; edentulate
Classified under:
Similar:
toothless (lacking teeth)
